Chapter 254 Another Palace Coup

"How dare you touch her?"

Everyone in the study lowered their heads and no one dared to speak.

Pei Luoshu's eyes were cold.

"I sent so many people to protect her, but you actually let her be kidnapped right under your noses. Moreover, you actually took advantage of her kidnapping to try to take her life?"

"If Wen Zhiheng hadn't arrived in time, you would have succeeded, right?"

"Do you know who she is? She is my wife!"

"If anything happens to her, none of you will survive."

Faced with Pei Luoshu's roaring questioning, none of the old subordinates dared to say a word.

"Grandson Huang, she is not worthy of you in the first place. Moreover, she is now your wife, which is an obstacle for you to ascend to the orthodox throne?"

Pei Luoshu sneered.

"After all you have said, you are just using me for your own benefit to regain glory and status. I didn't beg you to come to me in the beginning, but now you are meddling in my affairs?"

The people in the study looked at each other, unwilling but not daring to provoke the Crown Prince again.

Pei Luoshu stood up firmly from the chair, flicked his right sleeve, and the wind from his sleeve swayed the papers on the table. He was tall and graceful, with a cold expression and deep and sharp eyes.

"From now on, I will go back to my old ways with you. I will avenge my father myself, and you will find glory on your own..."

The old subordinates were now panicked.

"Grandson Emperor, you are a descendant of the royal family, and you have the most noble status. How can you just give it up? How can you be worthy of the deceased Crown Prince and the orthodox royal family?"

Pei Luoshu said coldly.

"It's all just delusion. If you don't take me seriously now, who knows what will happen in the future? Forget about it and leave my house immediately."

Several people knelt down hurriedly.

"Your Majesty, please calm down. We will never interfere with Madam's affairs again. Please have mercy on me."

Pei Luoshu shook his head slowly.

"Let's go."

Inside the bedroom, with many lights and shadows, it seemed even more empty and ghostly.

His Majesty was lying on the bed, feeling extremely panicked.

As an emperor, the word "panic" had already been well concealed by him in the bloody years.

But now, it is rushing out from the tip of my heart, making me inexplicably frightened.

He stood up and opened the curtain. It should have been his personal eunuch, Long Muchuan, who was standing there at the moment, looking at him quietly with a sneer on his face.

"Third brother, you can't sleep either?"

"Laojiu, why are you here? Where are the others?"

"I want to talk to you. I sent everyone else away."

The emperor finally understood where the panic came from. Old Nine was going crazy again.

He smiled gently.

"If you have anything to say, let's sit down and talk."

Long Muchuan looked at his seemingly kind third brother in front of him, touched his cheek with the tip of his tongue, and sneered.

"Third brother, there is no corner of the palace that I don't know well, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to arrange the assassination in the East Palace. So, don't roll your eyes now. Don't worry, no one can see it."

His Majesty's face turned cold.

"Old Nine, you are so outrageous."

"What's wrong with me being unruly? It's not the first time."

His Majesty asked after suppressing his anger.

"What do you want to do now?"

"Let me ask you a question."

"Ask."

"How do you feel when you see others falling into pain and madness? Sadness? Distress? Or a strange sense of pleasure, feeling that everything is under your control?"

The emperor looked calmly at Long Muchuan in front of him.

"What are you crazy about?"

Long Muchuan spread his hands, looking innocent.

"I'm not crazy. Is my question difficult to answer?"

"What on earth are you going to do?"

Long Muchuan laughed evilly, then fell backwards, sinking into the black chair and blending into the black clothes on his body.

"You poisoned my mother and framed my eldest brother for it, then used me to clear out those opposing voices for you. Third brother, when you wake up in the middle of the night, can you feel at ease?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? Your mother was poisoned to death by someone sent by your eldest brother. Where did you hear these rumors? Why are you trying to pin this old story on me?"

Long Muchuan looked coldly at the angry and frustrated look of his third brother.

He has always been shrewd and never gets involved in bad things. He is good at exaggerating and stabbing people in the back. Now that his secrets have been touched, he starts to accuse others of having bad intentions.

You've followed him for so many years, but you still don't know his temper?

Now he seems calm and has a strong aura, but inside he is actually very weak.

"Third brother, I deserve all of this. I don't know people well, I can't tell right from wrong, and I was deceived. It's all my own fault. I admit it. I took the blame. But, third brother, as the instigator, you should also be punished to comfort the souls of those who died in vain."

His Majesty was a little frightened at this time.

"Old Nine, wake up. Those people outside are trying to deceive you. They want to alienate the brotherhood between you and me. You must recognize this clearly..."

"Well, I used to be anxious to find out the truth, but now I just want to act according to my feelings. It doesn't matter whether it's true or not."

His Majesty wanted to escape immediately.

Long Muchuan quickly raised his foot and stepped on his robe. The third brother fell to the ground instantly. His whole body was shivering, cold sweat was on his forehead, and he struggled to crawl forward.

Long Muchuan walked quietly to his side, squatted down, and looked at his always arrogant third brother, who now looked so ruthless, and couldn't help but sneer.

He took out a dagger and stabbed his third brother.

"Look at your belly. I don't know how many dirty things it has hidden in these years. How many lives have been lost? Let me dig it open and see what kind of disgusting things are inside."

The emperor's eyes were filled with horror, but his hands and feet were unable to move. He watched helplessly as the dagger with a cold glow pierced into his stomach.

Long Muchuan's face was splattered with blood. When he heard his third brother's scream, a hint of coldness appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Don't be afraid, brother. It will be fine in a while."

At the first light of morning, when the Gyeonggi Guard was on patrol, a eunuch ran out in a hurry, shouting miserably.

"The Emperor has died..."

The leader pushed open the palace gate. Inside the huge palace wall, the ground was covered with bright red. Corpses were piled up everywhere. In the corridor, the red lanterns were covered with blood stains. When the wind blew, a drop of blood fell, hit the ground, and exploded.

Inside the bedroom, the emperor's belly was cut open, blood spilling out all over the floor, his eyeballs bulged out, looking the color of dead fish, it was extremely horrifying.

At the same time, in the prince's mausoleum, Long Muchuan knelt on the ground and committed suicide in front of the mausoleum.